Show me Your Bat 🦇 by k0ng

Format: Commander

Commander: Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 19

Deck overview

This is a general-power Zoraline, Cosmos Caller Bat and Vampire midrange deck. Its central engine casts the commander, places cheap creatures in the graveyard, and pays two life plus {W}{B} to return them with finality counters. The returned creatures build a flying board and supply lifegain, sacrifice fodder, hand disruption, or death triggers. Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, Vengeful Bloodwitch, Starscape Cleric, Sanguine Bond, and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose convert that activity into incremental life loss. Ramp is adequate, and the deck has strong creature and permanent removal through several sweepers. Its main weakness is that the engine produces value rather than a compact win. The primary payoff requires several vulnerable permanents, while the deck has almost no stack interaction and limited protection. It can grind through creature decks, but it usually needs multiple combat steps and favorable board development to close three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blight Keeper
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Tribute
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Courier Bat
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Guardian of Faith
  • 1 Hazel's Nocturne
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kalastria Highborn
  • 1 Lifecreed Duo
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
  • 1 Moonstone Harbinger
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Power Conduit
  • 1 Reciprocate
  • 1 Relic Vial
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Ruin-Lurker Bat
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sinister Monolith
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sonar Strike
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Starseer Mentor
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Timothar, Baron of Bats
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Zealous Persecution
  • 1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller